Higher learning

So the other day I was talking to a person who was going to a university (an American one) and he said he was taking some "Middle East Studies" class or something. I asked him if he knew the difference between Sunni and Shi'a Islam and he didn't know. I then asked him if he knew anything about how after World War I, territories formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire became League of Nations mandates under British and French administration, and he knew nothing about it. I don't know what he's being taught but I think knowing the difference between the two main denominations of Islam and the history of the region is important if he's going to act like he's an expert on the subject. I'm not claiming to be an expert but it's funny how I know so much more than him. Nonetheless, he's the educated one because he's taking a class for it at a university and I'm not.

I got F's in school and I dropped out and I have never spent a single day in college so can somebody please explain why I know more than him?

Besides a few professions like things pertaining to physics, rocket science, and maybe even law. "Higher learning" doesn't mean much.

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Here's how the American education system works.

Elementary school K-6: You actually learn basic skills like math, some science, some history, and other crap. Grades are based almost entirely on effort and quality of work.

Middle school 7-8: The school still teaches but not as much, most of school is starting to become a social playground. Grades are based on social status and a little bit on knowledge.

High school 9-12: Absolutely no learning. People simply socialize all day and bully people less socially popular as they are. Grades are entirely based on wealth and popularity. They could care less for knowledge and effort. Yet for some reason drop outs are looked down upon as being stupid.

University: People spend the equivalent of a Lamborghini Countach over a period of 4 years to "learn" things they will never once apply to their actual job. Yet for some reason people with degrees are seen as experts in their fields. It's pretty much a place where you buy a degree so people will think you're smart when you really aren't.

The Phantom Dumper strikes again! This time, at my office job. It was me who took the upper-decker in stall 2 of the womens bathroom. It was me who shat in the upper right hand drawer of the VPs desk. That horrid smell in the copy room? You guessed it. I took down a ceiling tile, crapped, and put it back up. The cute new intern? It's my fault she left. She left her purse in her cubby overnight. Yep, I got it. The office managers coffee cup? I apologize for this one because I had Taco Bell. Oh, and that wasn't dog shit sitting in a nice pile on the sidewalk leading to the main entrance. Come on, when was the last time you saw a 250 lb dog? The shitting will continue until I get that raise I was promised 6 months ago.
And the next round will be worse, since I've started drinking Metamucil

Yeah I learn more when I'm high.

higher learning is a myth.

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>>15
So you think you're a better, smarter person than him just because you happen to know a couple of things he doesn't?

LOL

The point is that the "retarded drop out" knew more about the Middle East and its history than the "smart guy" who was studying it at a fancy university. And he wants to know why. Why don't you thoroughly read the post.

>>49
cos its gay.

>>50

Because college doesn't really teach you anything. And it's these same ignorant people that are keeping this from being revealed to the public.

>>48

That's just one subject he knows not "a couple of things he doesn't" but many things.

>>51
It teaches research. Not very well either. The degrees are fucking useless when it comes to knowing a subject.

Forget most of the fuckers in the IT industry. If you have a degree you can get in line with the other interns, just further back cos I'm taking the dude who taught himself 4 scripting languages plus 32 other applications.

science courses are just as grey as humanities.
physics say is a set of theories (sometimes contradictory, but as is the case in say phyc, as 2 different world views rather than 2 simultanius truthes), which are based on incomplete data.
To stand up, they just have to predict results correctly ALL of the time and make mathmatical sense based on other theories that predict results correctly all of the time.
science students (with half a brain) understand this, and actually I see a good few dropouts when they come to understand this. Unfortunately humans dont have a complete picture of their world.

anyways, when I'm talking to people that dont do my course, and they want to talk about it, I quite often play dumb because people like talking, and if I were to tell them about it I'd feel like I was lecturing them. Its basic social skills.
Maybe they just thought you were a fag and wanted to stop talking to you about it before you ass fucked them.

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